Team Mirai Pushing To Bring 'Digital Democracy' To Japan. The top story to emerge from Japan's Lower House election on Febuary 8 was the overwhelming victory of Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi and her L ...

Lawmaker Muneo Suzuki noted that Japan could use its geographical advantage to replace oil and gas supplies from the Middle East ...

Japan's House of Representatives passed the government's fiscal 2026 budget bill on Friday after unusually short deliberations as Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi aims to get it through the Diet before ...

The Budget Committee of Japan's House of Representatives approved the government's fiscal 2026 budget bill by a majority vote on Friday, paving the way for a full Lower House vote on the budget bill ...

Japan's Lower House has passed a draft budget bill for the next fiscal year beginning in April. At 122 trillion yen, or about 765 billion dollars, it's the biggest ever. The budget has now been sent ...

The U.S. dollar strengthened in February, supported by a stronger-than-expected jobs report and a slight decline in unemployment, which challenged the narrative of a slowing American labor market.

A working-level group formed by the cross-party national council on social security, tasked with looking into a possible ...

The fiscal 2026 budget proposal is to be passed in the House of Representatives Budget Committee with the support of the majority ruling coalition on Friday evening.

The ruling coalition is aiming to get the budget passed by the Lower House on Friday, but opposition parties argue that more time for deliberations is needed.

The Japanese government on Friday approved a plan to consider legalizing the use of birth surnames alone in official ...

Are young Japanese voting based on an “idol effect” – or are they redefining entirely what it means to be liberal vs conservative?